"[66] The PlayStation Official Magazine placed him as the eighth best videogame villain on PS3. Levine stated that they figured out who the character of Andrew Ryan is too early, adding that they underestimated the impact that this would make. Soon he was among the wealthiest men in America, owning Ryan Oil, a large chunk of America's coal, and her second largest railroad. As Jack and Ryan shared the same genes, Jack would be able to bypass much of Rapture's genetic-based security. By the time Jack meets Ryan during the events of the first game, he has devolved into nothing more than a brutal and paranoid madman running a failed utopia. He authorized the use of a pheromone which made Rapture's citizens vulnerable to his mental suggestion, thus ending the conflict, though he did so with much reluctance. With how much he had learned of Ryan's habits and activities, he would be well on his way to imitating him if he so desired. can be seen written on the accompanying note, sent by Fontaine, ordering Jack to hijack and crash the plane at the coordinates of the city. She sees this same vision in her dying moments towards the episode's ending. Editor Ryan Geddes agreed, adding that he felt there was more to Ryan than Rapture. Andrew Ryan (born [5] [6]) is the founder of Rapture and the owner of Ryan Industries. As Jack heads to Rapture Central Control, Ryan begins to hint at this knowledge in his final radio messages. Eventually, Jack reaches the secret submarine bay in the hidden base used by the smugglers. Learn how and when to remove this template message, massive multiplayer online role-playing games, "Exclusive: Ken Levine on the making of Bioshock", "GDC: Ken Levine Speaks: Empowering Players to Care About Your Stupid Story", "Ken Levine on BioShock: The Spoiler Interview", "Rationalizing Rapture with BioShock's Ken Levine", "BioShock Infinite's Ken Levine: of sounds and pixels", "Opinion: When Should Games Say Goodbye? Designing the encounter between the player and Ryan was a controversial decision for the developers due to the question of what the player's motive is at this point. Most of what you know about Ryan is handily force-fed . Its primary purpose was to warn of the evils of the Surface. 6 Facts You May Not Know About Atlas and Frank Fontaine | Bioshock 6 Amazing Facts About Fontaine! I want to take the ears off! And perhaps one day he would, but right now he had his hands full with his Atlas persona. [42][43][44] Whilst strongly discouraged, but not outright illegal initially, smuggling was eventually outlawed and made a hanging offence by Ryan as "Any contact with the surface exposes Rapture to the very parasites we fled from. BioShock Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. Place of Death Voice Actor Armin Shimerman(English)Gudo Hoegel(German)Unsho Ishizuka(Japanese), Gudo Hoegel(German)Unsho Ishizuka(Japanese). He is the main antagonist throughout most of BioShock. This is the idea on which Andrew Ryan's city is based. Privacy Policy. Jack meets professor Julie Langford, inventor of the Lazarus Vector, a sort of fertilizer that will restore the trees to health. Moments later, the events within the Kashmir Restaurant occur. Atlas then drops her off at Suchong's Free Clinic, where she obtains the Ace. [49] Rapture's high-water mark can be traced to New Year's Eve, 1958. phrase, to kill him, mockingly ordering him to "obey", which Jack is forced to do.[28]. Andrew Ryan has been given an updated character model in, The monitor screen image Andrew Ryan uses to communicate with Elizabeth in. But then Fontaine also references him in a way. These pheromones proved decisive in turning the tide of the civil war in Ryan's favor. Cohen requires Jack to murder three of his former disciples before he will allow Jack to proceed, which he accomplishes. Ryan's failure to understand the effects of the burgeoning ADAM-based culture allowed the destructive rise of the fishery owner, smuggler, and black market operative Frank Fontaine. To find a way forward, she must look to the oldest stories of all for guidance. [2] The character has received significant praise from critics, with Electronic Gaming Monthly ranking him ninth on their list of top ten video game politicians. Cookie Notice Before delivering a final, fatal blow, he realizes that he still needs Elizabeth alive so she can decode the paper. Contents 1 History Andrew Ryan Moira (Bioshock) Brigid Tenenbaum Big Daddy (BioShock) Little Sister (BioShock) J.S. They are opposites equal in power. Seemingly providing shelter for orphans and the poor, in reality he was subjecting them with ADAM, a deadly substance he forcibly extracted from little girls, turning them into dangerous and insane Splicers. [10] Ryan also watched as the Bolshevik Red Guard executed his aunt and uncle during a purge for associating with Ryan's father and other opponents of the Communist regime before fleeing with his father to Constantinople.? [6] Ryan hoped that this would put an end to the tension that had been created, but Atlas escaped on New Year's Eve, bringing with him Splicers whom he had gained as allies while in the prison. He explains to Jack the fallen utopia, ADAM, and the events which occurred after the 1958 New Year's Eve Riots. He gives her a portable radio to stay in contact and departs with Sally as his hostage, judging the Little Sister far too valuable to be left with her. To many, this represented the ultimate betrayal of Ryan's philosophy, to deny citizens their free will. "[49] 411 Mania editor Adam Larck agreed, praising the introduction Ryan gives to the player as they enter Rapture. A few stretched necks are a small price to pay for our ideals. It was all a Setup for Fontaine's 'secret' betrayal/exposure. As he watches the ruckus taking place in Rapture, Ryan taunts Jack and revels in delusions of his city returning to its former glory. Fontaine was keeping a close eye on Andrew Ryan lately, using all of his connections to learn the man's daily routine. [69], A species of marine gastropod named Rapturella ryani was named after Ryan in 2016.[70]. Answer (1 of 3): To be honest, they have so many similarities as villians that I have a hard time making a decision. He added that while his words resemble "totalitarian propaganda", players cannot help but sympathize with him. His experiences in Russia led to his hatred of communism, and the equally authoritarian regime of the Tsar which preceded it. Haha . Even Ryan's long-time friend Bill McDonagh resigned from the Central Council in protest. Atlas is the revolutionary who led many of the disillusioned of Rapture against Andrew Ryan and his supporters during the Civil War. He is the main antagonist throughout most of BioShock. Atlas! Andrew Ryan is a complex man whose most defining trait is his egomania, as well as his objectivist ideals, which he spreads to all of Rapture. [23][24] This alienated many of his former friends, some of whom betrayed him, only to be discovered and executed. My strength is not in steel and fire, that is what the parasites will never understand. Fontaine admits that just about everything he said as Atlas was a lie. [50] Adam Volk of Gamasutra described him as a fascinating take on the mad scientist character, adding that if more developers steer away from stereotypes of the character type, these characters could easily rival those in film, television, or novels. To Levine, both characters are extremists who are "almost equally dangerous", although "Fontaine is the only real monster in the game, because he has no ideals at all, and all Ryan has is ideal". [26], When Jack (the player's character in BioShock) arrives in Rapture in 1960, Ryan views him as a threat, initially believing him to be a government agent, most likely sent by the Russian KGB or the American CIA. Unlike other NPCs, Andrew Ryan's corpse cannot be interacted with whatsoever; it cannot be looted, burnt, frozen, beaten, or lifted with telekinesis, and hornets will completely ignore it. In the end though, I think Lamb is more evil for a few reasons. I honestly can't figure this one out for the life of me. Nationalizing Fontaine Futuristics, even creating a black market that shouldn't have had to exist in Rapture but Ryan made it that way. Atlas speaks with an Irish accent, specifically, a working-class Dublin accent. Ryan Security was sent in to wipe out Atlas and anyone who stood in their way, which failed when the revolutionary and several of his men managed to escape. Born Ryan educates Jack about his true self, telling him of his birth, his conditioning, his experiences in Rapture, and the phrase "Would You Kindly", which controls his actions. The social conditions resulting from the economic readjustments allowed Frank Fontaine to establish the influential but philosophically-undermining Fontaine's Home for the Poor. He claimed that much of Rapture's personality comes from Ryan, and it would have much less of an impact without him. Atlas was a name Fontaine adopted when he staged his own death in a shootout at Fontaine Fisheries in 1958 when Security Chief Sullivan's city security forces . [5] He has an enormous hatred of what he refers to as "parasites", consisting mainly of people who support left-wing political viewpoints, namely socialism and communism. When the government attempted to nationalize it as parkland, Ryan's response was to burn it to the ground to deny it to the "Parasites".[12]. Andrew Ryan was born Andrei Rianofski in a village near Minsk in Russia (modern Belarus), during the time when the Tsar still held . Despite being defeated and murdered by his own son and shortly afterwards having his city taken over by his sworn enemy, Ryan ultimately dies on his own terms, believing he got the last laugh over Jack and Atlas. Power? Ryan attempts to do whatever possible to kill Jack, who is guided through Rapture by Fontaine, still disguised as Atlas. Ryan attempts to persuade Elizabeth to work alongside Ryan Industries or die with the rebels. When Atlas became a considerable threat to Rapture's stability, Ryan was smart enough not to execute him straight away. The term "looters" was used often in the novel in the same sense as "parasites" was used by Andrew Ryan in. Ryan's world of Rapture has been compared to that of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. You and Starfish are my home. Instead, Ryan had Atlas and his closest followers moved to the prison where the rabble-rousers and the other parasites could live in their own hell. Project X in the same novel is similar to the atom bomb, as both were applications of science for destructive purpose: Project X was created to "preserve peace" and "squash rebellion," QED oppress and punish those who disagreed with the government. SPOILERS BioShock Andrew Ryan, Atlas, and Frank Fontaine 10,697 views May 17, 2014 118 Dislike Share Save Ken McGowan 76 subscribers Fair warning, there are BioShock SPOILERS in this video!. He wants Jack to help him rescue his wife Moira and infant son Patrick, who are trapped in the city. The Vita-Chamber in Ryan's office was deactivated, so Ryan is dead and cannot be resurrected. Jack survives Fontaine's attempts to put an end to his life with the help of Brigid Tenenbaum and her saved Little Sisters and pursues the conman. Scene of strung up people in Fontaine's Department . Ryan has been compared to several different real-life and fictional figures, and his world of Rapture compared to the world of Galt's Gulch in the Ayn Rand novel Atlas Shrugged. In the desperate arms race with the rebels' numerous Splicers, Ryan was forced to use more and more security measures, eventually restricting most public transportation in the city in an attempt to block movements of Atlas' followers. Unbeknownst to Ryan, his archrival concocted and succeeded in a scheme to fake his own death. Frank Fontaine, aka Atlas, is the Arch-Enemy of Andrew Ryan. "There's no going back if you do. [25] Despite the devastation brought about as a result of the fighting, he maintained the hope that his city would rise again. His childhood experiences in his home country helped shape his belief in objectivism. Language: English Words: 1,505 Chapters: 1/1 Kudos: 71 Bookmarks: 4 Hits: 586 Odd ideas and works that never got to see the light by Kayuri Fontaine, taking advantage of this opportunity, paid a high-ranking employee of his, Brigid Tenenbaum, to purchase the embryo from her. In a televised broadcast that night, Ryan acknowledged "trials" in the previous year but offered a toast to the city that 1959 may be Rapture's finest year. (Here's a map.) [18] However, just moments after his broadcast, the citizens of Rapture were alerted to an "incident" at the Kashmir Restaurant, where a masquerade ball thrown for Rapture's elite was taking place. A man chooses, a slave obeys." 1960 Tenenbaum was the one who . He asks Jack to help him reach his family in a submarine hidden in the Smuggler's Hideout, a secret cave used by the smugglers before the Civil War and located below the foundation of Fontaine Fisheries in Neptune's Bounty. One of the many "Who is Atlas?" Andrew Ryan simply had too much power and was about to clamp down on Fontaine and shut down Fontaine's operations. [3] GamesRadar staff ranked Andrew Ryan 6th place on their list of the best video games villains. Andrew Ryan originates from Russiaalthough he spent most of his life in America, so perhaps that justifies his American voice actor. In today's video, I'll be talking about the Story of Frank Fontaine. posters can be found throughout the multiplayer maps,includingFort Frolic and Arcadia. Inside Fontaine's apartment in Olympus Heights, a phonograph can be heard playing "Danny Boy" by Mario Lanza, a famous Irish song. ! You can kill me, but you will never have my city. He is the Chairman of the Rapture City Council, owner and operator of Hephaestus, and one of the most important men in the city. When discussing how many people would get the good ending to BioShock, he commented that Ryan would not be choosing to take the easier path. He only appears in person in the Rapture Central Control level. [4] While he is saner than the opponents the players encounter before him, including a plastic surgeon who takes his ideal of beauty too far, he is as unmovable as he is unwilling to change his ideals. Atlas speaks with an Irish accent, specifically, a working-class Dublin accent. Money? Ryan appears in Episode Two, when Elizabeth infiltrates one of his offices in search of a device. Fontaine's illegal profits enabled his businesses to expand, placing him in a good position to fund and exploit the new ADAM industry. Atlas is supposed to be an American (Frank Fontaine) pretending to be Irish, but an actual Irishman voices Atlas (while an American voices Fontaine). Infuriated by this knowledge, Ryan decides to activate Rapture's self-destruct mechanism in a final attempt to put a stop to Atlas' plan. With Johnny killed by a female Splicer, and the bathysphere severely damaged, Atlas helps Jack via a shortwave radio and guides him through districts of Rapture. Like. 4- "My city was betrayed by the weak". Ryan and Atlas then engaged in a destructive guerrilla war that brought ruin to the city and claimed the lives of an untold number of its citizens. Welcome back my Rapture Family to another brand new Bioshock video. Atlas, with his situation now desperate, and with few unspliced followers who were not susceptible to Ryan's pheromones, was forced to use his "ace in the hole. Andrew Ryan [17] Once his smuggling activities were finally exposed, Ryan ordered his security chief to kill Fontaine. [63], Andrew Ryan has appeared in a number of "top" character lists. In Burial at Sea - Episode 2, Andrew Ryan is heard narrating the "Free Men & Free Markets" Need To Know Theater film, and an Audio Diary of him can be found in the game. [56] In their Game of the Year awards, IGN praised the voice acting, citing Ryan's speech he delivers to players as what convinced them. She reawakens after two weeks, and Atlas threatens to give her a transorbital lobotomy if she doesn't give up the Ace in the Hole. If everyone in the U.S. lined up single file, the line would stretch around the Earth almost 7 times. Frank Fontaine, also known as Atlas, is one of the main antagonists of the science fiction video game series BioShock, serving as the main antagonist of both BioShock and its prequel BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea, a posthumous character in BioShock 2 and one of the two main antagonists of BioShock 2's multiplayer mode Fall of Rapture. Atlas : The Wild Bunny, by Sander Cohen. From 1946 to 1958, Rapture experienced tremendous economic progress, and solid political stability. Another one, "Goodbye to Fontaine", can be found in Fontaine's sacked office at Fontaine Futuristics. [17] Two months later, all who had been identified as involved in Fontaine's crimes had been arrested and put into Fontaine's Department Store, which Ryan had turned into a prison to house them. More posts from the Bioshock community Continue browsing in r/Bioshock Andrew Ryan is the man behind Rapture, an underwater city that we're thrown into through fate in BioShock. A workaholic with a strong desire to be precise and controlling of everything and everyone around him, Ryan is driven to win, and looks down on those who don't share his philosophy and work ethic. This further unsettled the citizens of Rapture, as a hundred or more people were imprisoned so quickly, with one citizen even describing it to be like a trick by Houdini. Think about it, during your first meeting, she was talking with Atlas, but she didn't seem to realize he was . If one compares his photo to Fontaine's, it is easy to notice that Atlas's face is clearly Fontaine, only with hair, without a mustache, and a more noticeable cleft chin. When Ryan learned of this betrayal, he personally killed her in a fit of rage. Nationality Ryan also appears in BioShock's sequel, BioShock 2, largely through audio diaries, which give the player an expanded insight into Ryan's history and ideals. 2- "We all make choices, but in the end, our choices make us.". Maybe we've missed something. He states that Atlas cannot be trusted, and remarks on Elizabeth's otherworldly origin, unique abilities and intelligence and how they'll be wasted when Atlas turns on her. During the prologue cutscene at the start of the single player campaign (set on December 31, 1958) Ryan can briefly be seen on television screens, offering a toast to the new year while Subject Delta takes Eleanor Lamb out to gather ADAM. are a reference to the line "Who is John Galt?" Bioshock Physical Tonic Sticker. --- --- --- --- --- Andrew Ryan & Frank Fontaine ( aka Atlas ) : It is unfortunate that because of the story 'Twist' thing, that the game's writers decided to paint Ryan as an 'evil meanie', so that YOU would have empathy to follow Atlas ( along that restricted game plot path ). 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